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From: declan@portia.Stanford.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Dust and Optical Drives
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.024356.26623@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Jul 90 02:43:56 GMT
Sender: declan@portia.Stanford.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
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jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes...

>I would have *thought* an optical disk would be immune from such problems,
>but a buddy of mine with a NeXt gave me the astonishing news that some folks
>are getting their optical disk drives practically *ruined* by dust.

Yes, it happens if you use it in a dusty environment and don't clean the
drives.  It's probably a bit worse if you boot off of the OD (which
is NOT recommended.  it's too slow)...  There are some cleaning instructions
FTP'able from cs.orst.edu.

I've had my cube for about a year now, and I haven't had any problems with
my optical drive, even though the cube's been used in what I'd call fairly
dusty environments (college dorm rooms and so forth)...

-Declan

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